Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-07-14
WHAT Is THOUGHT OF IT.

Comments of General Burdette and Por-
ton of the Washington Press on the Pres
ident's Letter Declining the Invitation
to st. Louis.
WASHINGTON, July S.-The Presidents
letter has created great interest in the po-
litical and army circles of Washington.
The general opinion seems to be, that it
is strong political letter, and will i'm
prove Cleveland's chances for reelection.
A few persons thought the President took
a narrow view of the disaffection among
the malcontents in the Grand Army of the
Repu bile, and said he should have gone
to st. Louis anyhow, inasmuch as in his
letter he stated that he did not hold the
Grand Army, as a body, responsible for
the disconnected feeling toward him.
Generals Burdette, ex COMMANDMENT =
Chief of the G. A. r. said: 81 think the
letter is happy termination for the Presi-
dent and for the Grand Army of situa-
ton which was deplored as much inside
of tho latter body as out of it. The whole
matter Of the controversy was unfortun-
ate, but the surroundings had become so
complicated regarding the Presidents
proposed visit, that his withdra wal in the
way he announces it will be generally re-
garded by Grand Army men as a FORUM
ate occurrence. They will be glad as well
that the refusal of the President to visit
the encampment is made SO honorably to
himself Under no circums tances could
there be imputed to the President the
least blame in the matter. The letter is
strong one politically, and it is a most
timely ending of what promised to be
delicate and EN- barrasing situation"
The Eaenin3 Critic 0nd.) comm enting
on the letter editorially saws: "That the
Chief Magistrate of the United States
should be deferred from visiting any
of "a tI,y NV re Of IL.
suit to his high office, is something here.
tofore unknown in our National expert
ence. 1t is something that never should
have been known. The bare suggestion
of such a contingency is startling to the
conservative sentiment of the Union. In
all probability the controversy will
widen the breach between the politicians
of the Grand Army and the Administra-
ton, but it is calculated to produce
a still wider breach in the Grand Army
organization itself, many of the members
of which, if not in sympathy with the
Presidents policy, still recognize him as
the chief officer of the Government, to
whom all classes of the people owe at
least the courteous obelsance of good
citizens, and are unalterably opposed to
making him the target, in season and out
of seas on, of continuous partisan assault.
Politically speaking, the Critic is there
fore inclined to think that the advant ages,
if advantages there be, Of this new phase
of the situation, are with the President,
and that his letter is a master stroke Of
policy.
The Star 1nd. Den.) says editorialy:
1.-THE President has acted with discretion
in declining to give even q few uncon-
trolable agitators a chance to put the
Grand Army, the people of St Louis and
himself into a false and embarrassing
position. While no divinity hedges about
our President, rowdy personal insults to
the Executive head, if they can be
imagined as possible, would be National
modification"